Word: aeschylus
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Five years later the Club moved out to Harvard Stadium to stage its most magnificient spectacle, Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Under a light drizzle, a large audience gathered at the far end of the horseshoe to watch the Greek tragedy produced as it originally was. The setting was complete with horses and chariots, nothing less than a "brillant pageant, typical of the heroic days of ancient Greece," as the Herald enthusiastically said...
Aneurin Bevan, Engineer Herbert Hoover, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Actress Lillian Gish. The books and authors discussed were and continue to be uncompromisingly first class, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...
...hanging for his acquisition. Mr. X had given Death of Agamemnon to Marquette University on an indefinite loan, with the stipulation that he will be allowed to come and see it whenever he wishes. At the unveiling ceremonies, university officials made speeches, a student read the death scene from Aeschylus' Agamemnon. In the audience, beaming anonymously, was Factory Worker X, who was about to pay the current $20 installment on his picture...
...proved his thesis but not without tremendous suffering. Never did he underestimate the hostility of the sea. He knew that at any moment a single wave could have ended his life, but his frail craft never capsized although mountainous waves sometimes flooded it. He fished and ruminated and read Aeschylus and Spinoza. He was never bored, but perhaps the worst times were those hours of unfathomable despair when it seemed "as if the immense and absolute solitude of the ocean's expanse were concentrated right on top of me, as if my beating heart were the center of gravity...
...experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary" or "The Persians of Aeschylus...